My faculty know there are tools out there to help them. That's not hard to understand. My focus is getting their attitudes / feelings / affective domain to shift towards openness, sharing, and interdependence. I feel that conceptual understanding of the PLN is a major barrier to powerful and transformative use of web2.0 tools.
This article does a good job of explaining it in an accessible way.
This mindmapping tool is relatively easy to use and has an interface that looks like MS Office.
There are collaborative capabilities and the ability for multiple users to make changes and comments.
WHat I like is that you can export your mindmap into various formats.
FOr example, when exporting to Word, it gives you a document outline with all your topics and subtopics as different levels of headings, so you can just plug in the text.